This blog is the result of 15 years of primary research by the writer on a hugely misrepresented topic 'Ancient Indian History', for which she devised a unique methodology of reading ancient Indian literature and verifying the results with modern sciences.
Top research organizations (like ISRO and ASI), scientists and Sanskrit scholars have contributed towards her work and the findings are expected to add new dimensions to the study of ancient history.

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Tuesday, July 19, 2016

A one day international conference was organized by I-SERVE
(Institute of Scientific Research on Vedas) on 16th July in Chanakyapuri,
New Delhi on the subject “Chronology of
Indian Culture since the Beginning of Holocene through Scientific Evidences”.
More than 25 leading scientists from all over India participated in the
conference and presented the latest research work being carried out by organizations
like Archaeological Survey of India, ISRO, National Institute of Oceanography, Birbal
Sahni Institute of Paleosciences, Anthropology Survey of India, Himalayan
Institute of Glaciology, Deccan College, Hisar University and Kurukshetra
University.

With the trashing of Aryan Invasion Theory as mythology based
on linguistic guesswork, it has become an important challenge for academia to prepare
an accurate chronology of the world’s oldest and biggest civilization that had
flourished in the Indian sub-continent. With the advent of superior scientific
tools and technologies for mapping, excavating and dating the early human
settlements, there is a need to run a parallel and multi-disciplinary scientific
platform for drawing conclusions about the Indus - Saraswati - Gangetic
civilization. Institute of Scientific Research on Vedas has taken up this task
of creating a platform for researchers from 10 different sciences to contribute
inputs and then identify as well as correlate common and credible conclusions.

This work has led to some ground-breaking achievements,
ranging from dating of Vedic hymns and references in Ramayan and Mahabharat to
mapping of geographical features and human settlements since the beginnings of
Holocene (10,000 BC to present). Mrs. SarojBala (Director, I-SERVE and a
retired IRS officer) has proposed the writing of scientific history based on
purely scientific evidences without any correlation with traditional history.
According to her, latest mapping of Sarasvati River course, correlation of
submerged and re-emerged settlements with sea level curve, excavations at Mehrgarh,
Rakhigarhi and Lahuradeva and latest genetic studies of Indians populations, should
all be correlated in the books reconstructing new scientific chronology of our
cultural heritage, so that it does not get lost in endless controversies. In
the words of Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, such scientific history would push back
antiquity of Indian Culture by a few millennia (to 7000 BC), could help unite
all Indians and generate shared pride in our rich ancient heritage!

Here is an introductory video on the kind of work I-SERVE is pursuing.

Saturday, July 2, 2016

Description of Chaturyuga in Human years as well as in Divine years as per Manusmriti (1/65-71) is summarised as under:

Yuga

Main Period

Sandhya + Sandhyansh

Total Length

Krita-yuga

4000 years

400 + 400 years

4800 years

Treta-yuga

3000 years

300 + 300 years

3600 years

Dvapara-yuga

2000 years

200 + 200 years

2400 years

Kali-yuga

1000 years

100 + 100 years

1200 years

However, 1 divine year = 360 human years. Hence, total length of every yuga gets multiplied by 360 and we get:

Yuga

Total length

Krita-yuga

1728000 years

Treta-yuga

1296000 years

Dvapara-yuga

864000 years

Kali-yuga

432000 years

Modern historians believe that originally Chaturyuga/Divyayuga was of 12000 human years but was later expanded to 12000 divine years (43 lac 20 thousand years). What could be the justification for applying divine year to the humans?

In Manusmriti (1/67) it is said: “one full year of men (360 days) makes one day and one night of the Devas. The Northern solstice is their day (180 days) and Southern solistice is their night (180 days)”. Probably in some remote past this was interpreted in the manner that by multiplying 12000 years of Chaturyuga with 360, duration of Chaturyuga was stated as 43,20,000 years.

Thus actually a Chaturyuga may comprise only of 12000 years. Also there have to be descending and ascending cycles of Chaturyuga, with some more years in between. This takes us to completion of precession cycle of 25690 years! This view has been held by several Sanskrit scholars, including eminent Sanskrit scholar Medhatithi, Swami YukteshwarGiri, Sri Sri Ji, jaggiVasdev Ji, PanditBhagwaddutt, Ganguli, Richard thompson. Even Glaceology supports that this might be the seventh such cycle going on.

If we accept the Chaturyuga cycle of 43,20,000 years, then are we prepared to declare that Kaliyuga consists of 4,32,000, of which 4,27,000 are still left!